5481 Reasons Why We’ve Seen Our Last Riot
They are hopefully going to charge the last of the rioters before the next Stanley Cup finals start. The police have been going through the pictures and video and are making an airtight case against each person. That is, if they can charge them before the statute of limitations comes into play.
If you are worried about another riot, you can thank Facebook and YouTube for making it so that only an idiot would try it again. With camera’s in everyone’s hands, we now have complete surveillance of all events.
What’s odd is that our newspapers are finally turning over their pictures (on a website that doesn’t really work). Not that they have done so willingly… first a couple of court cases, which they lost, now they’ve posted all for “innocent” people to go through to see if they are in any.
“The Sun and The Province are posting every photo online (5481 of them) so readers can see whether their images are included in the massive police file assembled for the riot investigation.”
Give me a break. The reality is that the social media sites have much more incriminating shots and statements that the newspapers have. Search Google for Vancouver rioters and you’ll find 81,700 images. They could have saved a lot of legal expense using this. There also are very incriminating images there. Or, does this not count?
Which kind of raises the question: is there any privacy left? I am kind of in favor of hanging looters and rioters, so it’s not an easy answer.
The issue won’t be going away anytime soon.
January 20th, 2012 at 7:05 am
I certainly hope you are right. In future riots shop owners should be allowed to attempt to push broken glass back in place with a shotgun blast.
January 20th, 2012 at 10:25 am
I don’t think it will stop any one. It’s obvious that there are little to no consequences. It’s open season in Vancouver. Anything goes…
January 20th, 2012 at 12:08 pm
Agree with “Miguel”. If the rioters are well prepared,they’ll simply carry a balaclava to be slipped over their heads as the fun starts,like the guys that were filmed by CTV taking theirs off during the Olympic “demonstrations”.
I wonder whatever happened to those guys? Nothing?
It’s safe to destroy property in Canada,period. The law is unwilling to do more than give token sentences,and anyone who can hire a half competent lawyer will probably not see any jail time at all.
I think this year,the alleged hockey fans won’t be out gathering in the streets,though. They’ll probably stay home to weep in private when their Canucklehead team wilts again to the character team from the East,whether it’s Boston or Philadelphia.
January 20th, 2012 at 8:18 pm
I saw the full video of the bald guy punching in the pic. He was actually fighting off rioters that were trying to set that truck on fire and pleading with them that they where only making Vancouver look bad. He was one of the good guys, just thought I’d point that out.